09.24.2008 5:40 pm
Encore: Cheadle latest star to stump for Obama
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Actor Don Cheadle, a Kansas City native, will become the latest Hollywood star to stump for Barack Obama here when he visits Missouri tomorrow. 
Cheadle, whose credits include socially-concious flicks such as Crash and Hotel Rwanda, will be at University of Missouri-St. Louis tomorrow at 4 p.m. for a voter registration event.
In the last few weeks, fellow actors Harper Hill and Ashley Judd have also come to St. Louis on Obama’s behalf.
This is so surprising!!
Ooooo, another Hollywood star? Why, I better start considering Obama!
Hotel Rwanda, eh? Well, perhaps Mr. Cheadle would like to comment on how Bill Clinton fiddled while Rwanda burned. Or as Samantha Power, a leading expert on genocide said in an article in The Atlantic, “As the terror in Rwanda had unfolded, Clinton had shown virtually no interest in stopping the genocide, and his Administration had stood by as the death toll rose into the hundreds of thousands.” But of course, Obama would have brought the genocide to an abrupt end by his superior diplomatic and negotiating skills, I’m sure.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200109/power-genocide
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Celebrities campaign for both sides.
The 1st amendment gives us all the right to free speech.
I’ll bank on Obama’s superior people skills any day over your guy and his backup dancer, Squeaky. Niether likely knows what continent Rwanda is on. McCain’s answer will be to bomb them all back to the stone age and let God sort ‘em out. How many times has Bush been to Darfour?
Yeah, Obama is so concerned with Africa that his own half-brother is living in a shack on a dollar a month. The guy who made $4 million last year couldn’t spare him a cent. Think what he will do for people he doesn’t know. Of course, he can be excused, as his philosphy is that somebody else ought to pay for his social agenda.
Don Cheadle is a fantastic actor. Every role I have seen him play has been a complicated, fully developed character. The effort that actors make to come across as convincing in a role are no different than the efforts that politicians make. There are cameras, lights, scripted words to read or recite with projected voices, intonation, and gestures to make. It is a natural transition for actors to become politicians. But just so the Republicans out there understand me, I fully understand how mistrust can develop. Hollywood has produced some real nasty politicians: Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston to name a couple.